Indian kitchens have always been rich with their greatest kitchen tips and tricks. The old grannies who ran them may seem de-crepit and old fashioned to us, but their intelligence ran too high and their tips and tricks never was a fizzer.The younger generation still harvest the fruits from them..Here are a few of such tips...
- To avoid bugs and moths from entering your bed,put a few black pepper seeds under your bed.
- An easy way to remove stains from aluminium vessels!Boil some water in it with cut onions.
- To make your brass vessels shine,rub them with news paper.
- Clean your mirrors with hot water added with salt and tea leaves.They will shine.
- To avoid stink in plastic containers,clean them once in a week with a spoon of salt and water.
- Do not discard the water in which you washed your rice.Use it to clean your crystal vessels.They'l shine.
- To remove rust stains from steel vessels,apply a little mustard oil and wipe with a white cloth.
- To easily clean etched crystal vessels,wash them with water mixed with vinegar and soap and clean using a brush.
- To remove stains from knives, rub it with a sliced onion and then wipe with clothe.
- To avoid the bad odour in your blender,add a little soap powder with warm water to it and switch on.Wash it later with pure water.
- While washing your thermal flask,pour warm saline water to it and keep for some time.Later on clean it.
- To remove stains from clothes,boil them in water added with baking soda and a few lemon slices.
- To remove rust stains from cloth,rub them with lemon juice mixed with salt.Then wash them in normal water.
- To avoid ghee from becoming stale, add a few black pepper seeds in it.
- You can avoid lentils from getting infested with fungus or bugs by adding three-four dried red chillies in the storage box.
- When you make dough for chapattis,add a little baking powder and boiled milk.This will make your chapattis soft.
- Does it take a lot of time to get your lentils cooked?Then add a little ghee to it while cooking,It will get cooked really fast and will have a nice odour.
- To avoid your cake from becoming dry,put a piece of bread in the storage box.
- To avoid ladies finger from wilting, cut both ends of it and store in a polythene bag.
- You can avoid fish from sticking to the bottom of pan while frying by adding a little 'maida' to the hot oil and then fry fish.
- If your vegetables decay soon while in storage,then put a thick clothe flat on the bottom of tray and arrange vegetables on top of it in the refrigerator.
- Before you clean the gas burners with water apply a little olive oil or petroleum jelly over it. It wouldn't get rusted.
- If you got rice which is sticky add a little gingelly oil to it while boiling.
- To remove the skin of tomato easily,put it first in hot water and then in cold water.
- If you put a small bag of camphor in the vessel you store cereals,it wont be infested with bugs.
- To avoid rats,sprinkle a few crushed putina leaves over the infested area.
- If there is excess salt in your curry add two cut raw tomatoes to it.It will become less salty.
- If your place is infested by ants,sprinkle a little table salt over the infested areas.
- While cleaning your mirror, wipe it with a damp clothe dipped in laundry blue.